History Main / LadyNotAppearingInThisGame

* The cover girls for the ''GrandTheftAuto'' games. The ones for ''[[GrandTheftAutoIII GTA 3]]'' and ''GrandTheftAutoChinatownWars'' do appear, but their roles are so small that they effectively still count.
** Unlike [[GrandTheftAutoIV Lola]] ([[UrbanLegendOfZelda the supposedly demonic hooker]]) and [[TheLostAndDamned the unnamed biker chick]], the girl who appears on the box for TheBalladOfGayTony actually DOES show up. Her name is Joni, she works for Maisonette 9 with Luis and she likes to have spontaneous sex with him in the security room while he's managing the club. Not a major player in the plot, but at least she shows up.

*** Ironically, though, actually soliciting prostitutes is impossible. John Marston is a married man, and no matter how evil the player chooses to make him, ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards he is still faithful to his wife.]]''
*** Wait, so cheating on his wife is more evil than mass murder? Sounds like the morality system from ''{{Fable}}''.

** Unlike [[GrandTheftAutoIV Lola]] and [[TheLostAndDamned the unnamed biker chick]], the girl who appears on the box for TheBalladOfGayTony actually DOES show up. Her name is Joni, she works for Maisonette 9 with Luis and she likes to have spontaneous sex with him in the security room while he's managing the club. Not a major player in the plot, but at least she shows up.

* SF strategy MMO ''Lacuna Expanse'' used a [[http://d3c1jot4uxnt54.cloudfront.net/ads/300x250-evony-tribute.jpg similar advert]], allegedly as a tribute to Evony. More recently we also got [[http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CJGf1sG17rbWggEQrAIY-gEyCESnG5sWIJmA this one]] and [[http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CPymzOvDxZ_ecxCgARjYBDIImwVO95qondk this one]], which are at least vaguely relevant to the game and considerably more tasteful.

* SF strategy MMO ''Lacuna Expanse'' used a [[http://d3c1jot4uxnt54.cloudfront.net/ads/300x250-evony-tribute.jpg similar advert]], allegedly as a tribute to Evony. More recently we also got [[http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CJGf1sG17rbWggEQrAIY-gEyCESnG5sWIJmA this one]], which is at least vaguely relevant to the game and considerably more tasteful.

A rather blatant subtrope of SexyPackaging and CoversAlwaysLie. The name is a play on "Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film" from ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.

* ''RedDeadRedemption'' has prominent artwork of a scarred brunette known only as the Scarlet Lady. She does not correspond to any character who actually appears in the game.

* The online ads for ''{{Evony}}'' featured women ranging from innocent-looking girls to porn stars, beckoning "my Lord" to play the game. It's worth noting that ''Evony'' is not an RPG but a strategy game, meaning you don't see ''anyone'' up close, let alone some bimbo in anachronistic lingerie.

** This is also done in ''RedDeadRedemption'', with a prostitute on the instruction manual. Particularly {{Egregious}} in the fact that most of the women in the game are ''ugly''.

* The online ads for ''{{Evony}}'' featured some pinup model (or just her breasts) saying, "Your kingdom awaits, my lord." It's worth noting that ''Evony'' is not an RPG but a strategy game, meaning you don't see ''anyone'' up close, let alone some bimbo in anachronistic lingerie.
** Evony's campaigns slow degeneration from "actual relevant ads" to "[+Boobies!+] [-(also play our game)-]" has become [[http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/07/14/evolution-of-evony-video-game-ads/ a running joke]] on game-related sites.

* The American box art for the SNES game {{Arcana}} features a raven-haired, sword-wielding, female Card Master attempting to look sultry. The only Card Master in the game is the ''male'' protagonist Rooks.
** Maybe he just looks good in drag.
** Wait, isn't she the FinalBoss?

* In EverQuest and [=EverQuest 2=], Firiona Vie and Antonia Bayle respectively fill this role. Firiona Vie is a partial subversion as she's actually an important character in the mythos, but it's very unlikely your characters will ever encounter her. Antonia is less important and a bit less reclusive than Firiona.

* RedDeadRedemption has prominent artwork of a scarred brunette SoiledDove. She is known only as the Scarlet Lady, and does not correspond to any actual character in the game.

* In [[PhantasyStar Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II]] for the gamecube, the cover art features every character class on their "default" designs that can also be seen and used in-game in the form of the [=NPCs=] in offline mode. All except for the [=HUnewearl=], whom is a green-shirt-wearing girl with long, pink hair. Although not the straightest example of this trope (as such a design ''is'' possible to create for the player's own characters), this [=HUnewearl=] doesn't appear in-game nor is the standard default [=HUnewearl=] provided right away when the class is picked, who ''does'' make their in-game appearance as Sue (Sue is dressed in a red shirt and has short, red hair). This is especially odd since every other box art for the original episodes I and II on the dreamcast feature the really-and-truly default [=HUnewearl=] on their covers (as in the design used for Sue).

*** Ironically, though, actually soliciting prostitutes is impossible. John Marston is a married man, and no matter how good or evil the player chooses to make him, ''he is still faithful to his wife.''

** Evony's campaigns slow degeneration from "actual relevant ads" to "Boobs! Play our game!" has become [[http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/07/14/evolution-of-evony-video-game-ads/ a running joke]] on game-related sites.

* For those of you fortunate enough to have missed those awful ads for the online game ''{{Evony}}'' that ran on this site ('''[[ItGotWorse and about a million others]]'''), they featured some pinup model (or just her breasts) saying, "Your kingdom awaits, my lord." It's worth noting that ''Evony'' is not an RPG but a strategy game, meaning you don't see ''anyone'' up close, let alone some bimbo in anachronistic lingerie.

*** Ironically, though, actually soliciting prostitutes is impossible. John Marston is a married man, and no matter how good or evil the player chooses to make him, ''he is still faithful to his wife.'' [[spoiler: [[TearJerker To his dying breath.]]]]

* In [[PhantasyStar Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II]] for the gamecube, the cover art features every character class on their "default" designs that can also be seen and used in-game in the form of the NPCs in offline mode. All except for the [=HUnewearl=], whom is a green-shirt-wearing girl with long, pink hair. Although not the straightest example of this trope (as such a design ''is'' possible to create for the player's own characters), this [=HUnewearl=] doesn't appear in-game nor is the standard default [=HUnewearl=] provided right away when the class is picked, who ''does'' make their in-game appearance as Sue (Sue is dressed in a red shirt and has short, red hair). This is especially odd since every other box art for the original episodes I and II on the dreamcast feature the really-and-truly default [=HUnewearl=] on their covers (as in the design used for Sue).

** This Troper used to play this game just to read the complaints of disappointed perverts and laugh my butt off.

* The hot chick in the green dress from the cover of the game manual for RedDeadRedemption.

* The cover girls for the ''GrandTheftAuto'' games. The ones for ''[[GrandTheftAutoIII GTA 3]]'' and ''[[GrandTheftAutoIV Chinatown Wars]]'' do appear, but their roles are so small that they effectively still count.